Cypriot
This Middle Eastern Dip known as hoummous, has passed to the Cypriot cuisine as hoummoi. It is made of chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon and olive oil and is one of the many mezedes they will serve you going to any taverna in Cyprus. They start bringing plates after plates, after plates, after plates. It’s perfect [...]
Kaloirka is a traditional Cypriot recipe, which is a pasta dish filled with minced veal or beef, similar to meat ravioli, maybe a remnant from the Venetian rule on the island!! This was the first time I made ravioli with ground beef. I usually make them with a cheese filling but it was something [...]
Flaounes are the traditional Easter cheese breads we make in Cyprus. Traditionally they are made on Good Friday and it’s not an easy job. The preparations usually start from the previous day and on Friday most female members of the family get up from the crack to dawn to start preparing them. I have memories [...]
A few months ago I told you how I made Cypriot Pita Bread and how easy it was to make. Ever since I learned how to make them we have been enjoying them in all sorts of sandwiches especially with halloumi and lountza or eating them with dips, like hoummous, taramosalata, tzatziki or melintzanosalata but [...]
Halloumi is indigenous to Cyprus and is one of a few cheeses made in Cyprus. Halloumi has been made in Cyprus for hundreds, not to say thousands of years and the recipe was given from mother to daughter as traditionally this was a woman’s job to do. The man of the family usually looked after [...]
As I am writing this post, today 17th February, 2008 my relatives in Cyprus are in church, commemorating my mother’s death, 12 years ago. She died on 23rd February, 1996 and the mnymosyno (memorial) always take place on the Sunday which precedes the date of death. This day is always very hard for me because [...]
Continue reading about Halloumi and Caramelized Poached Dry Fruit for my mum
Cypriot pitta bread are much different to the Greek pitas. They are flat breads like the other pita but are different in shape and in taste. I’ve been in Greece for 27 years and have never found any, at least where I live. (After a year, writing this post, you can find Cypriot pitas in [...]
Continue reading about Kypriaki Pitta (Cypriot pita – flatbread)
I have posted about koupes last month and you can see the original recipe here. The recipe for the dough is exactly the same. However, as the Orthodox have big lenten periods, fifty days before Easter, forty days before Christmas and some days before the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary as well as on some [...]
Pischies is a Cypriot traditional pastry dessert made with dough on which it is generously brushed with olive oil, cinnamon and sugar and after shaping them they are fried in olive oil and then bathed in syrup. These pastries are very easy to make and very tasty. You can make the the dough from scratch [...]
Koupes is a street food we find in Cyprus and one of the most usual place to find them was on Sunday mornings outside the Church yards. I am not sure if you can still find them outside churches but I know that they are now sold in supermarkets or in confectioneries. Koupes are served [...]
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